| ISSUES
OF THE SOVIET REPUBLIC
Nos.
225-262
[In
the present Scott Catalogue Nos. 223-305 are unassigned.
These issues - 225-262 - (the szeged issue) are
now listed as 'Occupation Issues' in the back of the Hungary
listing and are assigned the numbers 1-P1.]
During
this same period a government in opposition to the Soviet
Republic government then in control of Budapest, was established
and known as the National Counter Government in Szeged
(a town in Hungary). This government surcharged Types
A 9 and A 10 with the words in a square, MAGYAR / NEMZETI
/ KORMANY / SZEGED / 1919 (the translation reading Hungarian
Government Szeged in 1919.)
On #240 and #241 new values were prepared by an additional
surcharge.
#246-258
the above overprint was applied to those formerly overprinted
Koztarsasag and #239 contains an additional surcharge
changing the value.
William and Doris Stericker of the Austro Hungarian Philatelic
society give us the following detailed information in
connection with the SZEGED issues: The overprinting was
started in King's Press in Szeged, but as the printing
progressed, a printers' strike took place; a portion of
the overprints were finished there, but since the owners
of the press would not continue the work, the material
was transferred to another print shop and there completed,
so that the balance of the overprints were by non-professional
hands and even by minor postal officials. Hence the preparation
of the overprints was accomplished under considerable
difficulty. This is noticeable in the overprints, since
many errors occur in the text of the overprints. It is
interesting that since the stamps were prepared in half-sheets
in two different print shops, one may find a sheet in
which the upper half (50 stamps) was done in one print
shop and the lower half in another. One can see these
differences in pairs from the middle of the sheet. Stamps
with cinnabar or dark green were produced in the first
print shop, and carmine or dark green in the second print
shop. Also that values not given here with overprints
or overprints in other than the given colors are proofs.
They further tell us the overprint of print shop one can
be recognized because the printing shows through strongly
on the back. The following will give you a list of the
number surcharged in the two print shops:
Reaper Issued Press
2f. (g) Yellow brown 17,800 1
3f. (g) red lilac 51,400 1
5f. (r) yellow green 14,300 1,
2
6f. (r) green blue 900 1,
2
15f. (r) violet 11,300 1,
2
20f. (r) sepia* 400 1,
2
25f. (r) blue 22,800 1,
2
45 on 3f. (g) red lilac 50,000 1
open 4 ............... 1
Karl and Zita
10f. (g) brick red 16,400 1
20f. (r) dark brown 66,400 1, 2
25f. (r) blue 1,500 1, 2
40f. (r) olive 3,500 1, 2
Parliament
50f. (r) lilac 2,100 1
75f. (r) bright blue 9,700 1
80f. (r) yellow green 2,200 1
1k. (g) dark red 18,000 1
2k. (r) olive brown 8,600 1
3k. (r) dark violet, gray 5,500 1
5k. (r) dark brown 400 1
10k.(r) chocolate & lilac 400 1
10k. on 1 k.(g) dark red 5,000 1
Newspaper Stamps (Special Delivery)
(2f.) (g) orange 48,299 1
2f. (r) gray olive-red 3,700 1,
2
War Relief
10 (+2) f. (g) red 47,200 1
15 (+2) f. (r) violet 10,400 1.
2
40 (+2) f. (g) dark red 4,000 1
Koztarsasag Overprints on Reaper and Parliament
3f. (g) red lilac 700 1
4f. (r) slate 3,600 1,
2
5f. (r) yellow green 1,600 1,
2
6f. (r) greenish blue 2,700 1,
2
10f. (g) brick red 1,200 1,
2
20f. (r) sepia 500 1,
2
20 on 2f. (g) yell brown 50,700 1,
2
40f. (r) olive green 17,400 1,
2
3K. (r) violet and gray 800 1
Koztarsasag, Karl and Zita
10f. (g) brick red 1,300 1
15f. (r) violet 4,000 1, 2
20f. (r) dark brown 300 2
25f. (r) blue 2,000 1, 2
50f. (r) purple 22,200 1, 2
Koztarsasag War Relief
40 (+2) f. (g) dark red 2,600 1
Postage Due
2f. (r) green and red 13,600 1, 2
6f. (r) " " " 4,100 1
10f. (r) " " " 10,600 1
12f. (r) " " " 8,400 1
20f. (r) " " " 6,500 1
30f. (r) " " " 4,400 1
50 on 2f. (r) " 15,000 1
100 on 2f. (r) " 15,000 1
This was a very unsettled period in Hungary, and rather
than take the necessary time to issue new stamps, the
supplies then in the various large post offices were surcharged
or overprinted to fill the need, even to the extent of
using up some values for which there was no use, by surcharging
them with new values. These are all known to exist on
cover and are just as much a part of your Hungarian collection
as any of the other stamps, but the warning against forgery
overprints cannot be stressed too strongly.
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